The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-10-26
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WHEELING. W. VA. OCTOBER 20. 1887


"uEELlSuy W. Sh's obAoDIn rob 400"
Ex-senator Thurnan's Farewell Speech.
The venerable ex-senator Thurman
made epcech to the Democracy Of Har-
din county, Ohio, last Saturday, which no
himself characterized as his probable last
political speech his farewell address, SO
to speak. H'
Such an address should have been very
carefully considered and worded, one
would think. The Senator has been a
noted man inhisday, and has exercised an
unusual amount OF influence in the ranks
OF his party, and bis last words should,
therefore, have risen above tho level oil
tho ordinary political ha1angue. Bat do
they rise above tha. level when he apeaks
thus CT the "solid South"
II the Republican leaders want to put
m end to tho Solid South they have the
casi0et way in the world to do 1t. They
eau do II in brief enough time I assure
you. All they have to do 10 tn cease
to create, and 10 GEEK to perpstuate, &
cold Moth, and tho solid South will dis
solye. N aj58
This adyics is spacious but nevertheless
fallacious. The South, 10 the first place
la not Gold politically. 1t is made to have
the appearance OF solidity by coercion
and fraud, just IS ly the sans means Il
wsa mnlo to DO solid for secession and
war 10 lsGl. There ara hunirSds Of thou
and0 OF votes in the South that ere sup
pressed in orde. to obtain its solid elsc.
toral vote. This Is tho radical difference
between solid North and solid South.
This Is not mere Republican sffirma.
ton. It q mater that is both acknowl'
edged and even boastsd Of in the South.
More than this, it is justified openly, in
print and out, on the ground that the
South can not afford to let this auppreaaed
vote BIO cast, Or DO counted as It desires
to DO cast. rs
Until Judge Thurman notices and dis
poses Of this all important feature OF the
solidisy OF the South his words are not en-
titled 10 favorable consideration. He is
too well acquainted with the state Of
affairs in the South to believe for mo.
msnt that there is an exact parallel be-
tween tho sol;di,y Of the tTo sections He
advises tho North to disintegrnte and
aggregate politically. He does not gdvise
the South 10 do anything Of the kind
And yet no man knows better than he
that but for the Gold South there would
bs DO possibility Of q cold North.
AS matter Of fac. there is no Solid
Electoral North, as It is. There were four
influential Northern States that voted for
Cleveland in 1881, but there was no
Southern State that voted for Blaine,
although ss every we'll informed person
knows tbs States Of Missisulppi and scuth
Carolina gro juet CO certainly Republican
in eeniimen! IS Masuachuestts and Yer.
mont. tt3j
The Slate oil Miesissippi has total vot.
ing population Of 23s, 532 OF whom 1870, 27S
are colored, ard yet the total for President
in 1880 stood. Democratic 7G,5lO, agains.
1900 Republican. Likewise, the State Of
South Carolina has voting population Of
e05. 1888. OF whom 1ls';SS3 are colored, and
yet her vote stood 69,764 Democratic
against $50 Republican.
We might, il neceaaary, add to these
two States the vote Of Louisiana and Ala.
bama, to show VIVA. farce is made Of
voting in the South. r$ci:l
Nothing like this 10 known at tho
North. Even Republican States are
nesrly on a balance; for instance,
Michigan, New Hampshire, Ohio, and
Oregon. There is no Gold political SEN
timent ct the North, and there would
BIO none ut the South il the ballot was re-
npocted. Force and fraud can not rule
at the North bat they do rule in the
South. Tho irrefrtab!s facts prove that
this is tho difference between voting in
the two sections. Ia ,;5, 4.
Tbs ansecedenta Of the Hiver Of this 3D.
vice should DO remembered. Senator
Thurman is ono Of the men who during
the var thought the war on the South
ought to stop. His udvics then as now
wau, Quit fighting the south and she will |
quit lighting you. OF conras che would
have quit. Nobody ever doubted that,
All tho speechea Of Senator Thurman will
chow that the North was in the wrong
then as nos. It was her fault that tho
South was in the field armed, and it is her
fault thst she ia now in the political field
armed with tisaue ballots and other fraud.
ulent appliances for euppreaaing or mis-.
counting large vote.
The venerable ex-senator has been con.
siotent all the way through since 1861.
Had his advice been followed VIC would
have he'd no war, nor any trouble about
voting in tho Sonth, The South would |
simply havc taken charge Of the country,
just as she would have taken charge Of 1t |
ever since the war but for the Republican |
party. NY; lI.;stE 5.,, \ 3{
Just what tue country has escaped from
first to last by ignoring tho advice and ap.
pcR!s OF Allen G. Thurmsn, God only
knows, but history will record that i. hse
escsped gyoa. calami!ica. al + y.
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